The night of Donald Trump’s big Indiana Republican primary win, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was ready. She tore loose with a series of late-night anti-Trump tweets in which she accused him of racism, sexism, xenophobia, narcissism and a host of other faults.
Two weeks earlier, after being asked about another Warren tweet storm in which she accused him of being “a loser,” Trump fired a warning shot across Warren’s bow. “Who’s that, the Indian? You mean the Indian,” he responded, referring to a well-known political controversy over Warren claiming Indian heritage.
The exchanges signal the start of what could be a nasty surrogate side-battle as the general election campaign begins to take shape. Warren is poised to be an aggressive Trump critic, for the Democrats and Hillary Clinton, should she lock up the nomination. And for Trump, who thrives off detecting weakness and pouncing, Warren is a target-rich environment.
From 1986 to 1995, she listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools directory. Harvard Law School cited her alleged Indian heritage in dealing with criticism that it lacked a diverse faculty. Her recipe in the “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook became the subject of derision, after charges it was plagiarized from a New York Times cookbook.
“I think she’s a fraud,” said longtime nemesis and Boston conservative talk radio host, Howie Carr. “I think her entire success in academia and in politics is based on a lie that she’s a Native American. She refuses to take a DNA test. She doesn’t even call herself Native American, anymore,” he said.
Asked what the purpose of that alleged fraud would have been, Carr said, “She was basically going nowhere in her academic career. She was an instructor at the University of Texas Law School in Austin. Suddenly she began checking the box and she was a tenured professor first at the University of Pennsylvania, and then she got a job at Harvard University law school. “
The final scene in the
